Re: [SLUG] Meaning of Nonsense in s p a m

[steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I am not sure about the garbage that
appears in subjects and in the middile of some spams but I am fairly sure
the html tags in the middle of words are an attempt to obfuscate the true
content of the spam from simple text filtering spam filters.  The
other stuff is probably the same.

I think spamassassin attempts to look
past this.

Steven

Nick Croft wrote :

Evening,

Just wondering if someone could enlighten me as to the meaning, purpose
or
origin of those strange nonsense words in spam.  I'm busy refining
spamc
& bogofilter atm and I see a lot of those words.

        eg
                  ykekdy uHQH
zNeyv lLNlAJ
                    
   RzneXcpebsgRzneXnpn pb nhRzneX

Some of it appears interspersed with html tags. Such as

> Cl<sbt7ans3c3pe16>ick H<sljh6jj20iawtw>ere
>       For M<s0bpffx2oowja>ore

i.e 'C l i c k Here for More' -- all that within an <a href= "">